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CAITLIN MERRETT KING
Writer and art programmer
Glasgow

@caitlinmerrettking
caitlinmerrettking[at]live[dot]co[dot]uk


PROGRAMMING/PROJECTS:
Lunchtime Gallery
David Dale Gallery
Glasgow Art Map
Group Show -- Podcast/Radio Show


SELECTED WRITING:

REVIEWS/ARTICLES
Bahar Noorizadeh, Cooper Gallery, Dundee
Frieze, February 2026

Ciara Phillips, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
BOMB, September 2025

Sarah Rose, Tramway, Glasgow
Frieze, July 2025

You know it’s not the same as it was: Review of The Promise of Pleasure programmed by Naomi Pearce and Anna Bunting-Branch at The Barbican
MAP Magazine, 2023

Park Life: Review of Jupiter Rising X EAF Party, part of a series of responses to Edinburgh Art Festival 2023, commissioned by Rosie Roberts
MAP Magazine, 2023

Do only interesting people get interested?, Review of a Glasgow gallery weekend 12/13 May
MAP Magazine, 2023

I wondered if I would care if I saw him again, Review of People Person by Sam Cottington
MAP Magazine, 2022

Letter from Newcastle and Gateshead,
Nothing Personal, 2022


COMMISSIONED WRITING
Open up your loving arms, watch out here I come, commissioned text for A blizzard in slow motion, Florence Dwyer and Jacob Dwyer, David Dale Gallery, 2024
Normal Position, text for publication, WORK, Yulia Carolin Köthe, 2024

‘The Golden Z’, written commentary for DAY CARE, Nicole Wermers, The Common Guild, Glasgow, 2024
Roundtable event for DAY CARE, Nicole Wermers, The Common Guild, Glasgow, 2024

with a blue backdrop for company, pamphlet published by Waterwings, French Street, Glasgow, 2024

‘A Beetle Crawls Up the Wall’, From Troubled Dreams Under a Glare of Sky, Ed. Michael Pattison, Edinburgh International Film Festival Critical Writing Commission 2023

Earlier, Here, Later, commissioned Text for Slim Glimpses, Amy Winstanley, Cample Line, Dumfriesshire, 2023

The Kink in the Arc, contributed text, Edited by Paul Becker, 2023

SLOW, commissioned text for FLOW, Sophia Pauley, The Briggait, WASPS, Glasgow, 2022

Ms Real gets lost, as far as i remember, Berlin, 2022

Teatime, commissioned text for Workaround, Charlie Hammond, The Hunterian, Glasgow, 2022


OTHER SELECTED WRITING/READINGS/EXHIBITIONS ETC.
[PUBLICATION]‘3 Jokes’, A Social Process of Unknowing Yourself in Real Time, Ed. Kate Briggs, Published by The Yellow Paper, 2025

[WRITING] In the water in a bay in the sea in the world in the universe, paper presented at Ek Symposium, Glasgow Project Room, September 2025

[EXHIBITION] In the water in a bay, with David Roeder, A_Place, Glasgow, July 2025 

[PUBLICATION] In the water in a bay, with David Roeder, A_Place, Glasgow, July 2025 [2nd ed., April 2026]

[PERFORMANCE] The Real Me [live], Abridged audio book of Always Open Always Closed, at Baked Beans on the Doorstep, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, 29.5.24


[PUBLICATION] The Ludicrously Capacious Bag, Published by The Yellow Paper, Glasgow, (The Yellow Paper Prize for New Writing), 2023

[PERFORMANCE] The Real Me, Abridged audio book of Always Open Always Closed, Radiophrenia, Glasgow, 2023.

[PUBLICATION] Always Open Always Closed, Published by JOAN, June 2023.

[WRITING] 3 poems in Deleuzine Vol 2: She-Dogs, Edited by Sabeen Chaudhry and Lilly Marks, 2023

[WRITING] Unsure Theory, Arts Journal (MDPI) Special Issue: Autotheory in Contemporary Visual Arts Practice, 2022

[WRITING] After Blue (1993), Responses to Derek Jarman's Blue (1993), Pilot Press, 2022

[EXHIBITION] Big Time Sensuality, with Hannah Reynolds and Isabella Widger, WASPS Hanson Street Project Space, Glasgow International, 2018

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EXHIBITIONS

The Airbnb, oil, acrylic & varnish on canvas, David Roeder, 2025; text on paper, Caitlin Merrett King , 2025. In the water in a bay, A_Place, Glasgow, 2025




After Dean Kissick and Sarah Tripp, 2022, MLitt Art Writing Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art





Coffee (performance leftovers), instant coffee, glasses; Paris, looped film; Big Time Sensuality, with Hannah Reynolds and Isabella Widger, WASPS Hanson Street Project Space, Glasgow International, 2018
Running on Cargo